Sports are an escape. And sometimes that escape is a bald rapper from Miami, sweating through a soft linen shirt while breathing heavily, pumping his fist and, along with it, pumping up the hopes of the crowd. | | | | | Is this the LeBron James of sports music? (Eva Rinaldi) | | | | |  | “Sports are an escape. And sometimes that escape is a bald rapper from Miami, sweating through a soft linen shirt while breathing heavily, pumping his fist and, along with it, pumping up the hopes of the crowd.”
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| | rantnrave:// Do you ever want to throw things at your TV when basketball teams playing for one shot run the 24-second clock down to 6 or 7 seconds before starting a play, leaving themselves no room for the slightest misstep? I do. But here's the LA SPARKS' CHELSEA GRAY and ALANA BEARD making perfect use of the last four seconds of game 1 of the WNBA finals. Play of the weekend... Selling ads on NBA jerseys turns out to be a lot harder than it looks. Five months after the league OK'd sponsor patches on uniforms, only one team has made a deal. ESPN's DARREN ROVELL explains why... But getting the NBA to make its mobile app more user-friendly turns out to be incredibly easy. All you have to do is tweet about it. (Pro tip: It helps if you are LEBRON JAMES)... HARRISON BROWNE of the NWHL's BUFFALO BEAUTS is the first transgender athlete in AMERICAN team sports. "I'm still playing in the body that I did last year, I'm still the same exact person," he tells ESPNW. "I'm just a different name and different pronouns, that's it"... DONALD TRUMP and REINCE PRIEBUS complained over the summer that scheduling the first two presidential debates against NFL games would be a ratings-killer for the debates. Turns out they had it backward. NFL ratings are slipping this year and the league says the presidential campaign is one of the reasons. So could this be the second time Donald Trump destroys a football league?... Speaking of football and destruction, here's what it looks like when a league tries to destroy its own teams' social media accounts. Well done, NFL... Women should be allowed to wear a hijab in athletic competition. They also should be allowed to not wear one... RIP AARON PRYOR. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | The Establishment |
| Running is often touted for having a low barrier to entry. But is this true? | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| When my sportswriter friend asked me, back in September of 2000, if I wanted to join him at an Atlanta Braves game that he was working, my first thought was, “That sounds fun!” | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| In the first of a two-part series looking into alleged corruption in football, the Guardian has talked to agents, lawyers and academics close to the biggest deals. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| The island’s American-born descendants are taking over professional sports and helping their country of origin — especially during Hurricane Matthew. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| "I was pretty unhappy inside, but skateboarding always made me happy," he tells "Rolling Stone." | | |
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 | ESPN.com |
| If you watch sports, you can't escape Pitbull. There he was during last season's NBA playoffs, his "Bad Man" carrying viewers to nearly every TNT commercial break. All June long, Pitbull occupied the Copa América after recording the official song of the tournament, "Superstar," this coming after he recorded "We Are One," the official song of the 2014 World Cup. | | |
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 | Only A Game |
| In 2003, Jordan Gross was a rookie offensive lineman for the Carolina Panthers. A veteran teammate asked him to buy a cappuccino machine. Jordan refused. Drama ensued. Now, 13 years later, Bill Littlefield tells the story of The Curse of the Cappuccino Machine -- and gives Jordan a chance to apologize for his mistake. | | |
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 | espnW |
| Harrison Browne, an NWHL forward for Buffalo, is the first openly transgender player in American professional team sports. | | |
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 | Fusion |
| These people have a very specific intention for their yoga practice: Bringing light to the U.S.'s unjust immigration policies. | | |
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 | WSJ |
| Minnesota Vikings’ Blair Walsh has not been the same since a crucial miss in the playoffs, but this type of hangover commonly afflicts kickers who missed in the clutch. | | |
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| The Guardian |
| He is a handsome multimillionaire who is very good at racing F1 cars but his petulance and the fact his winning smile is increasingly lesser-spotted make him difficult to admire. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Why hasn’t a female LeBron James - a star of the fashion tents as well as the hardwood - emerged from the W.N.B.A.? | | |
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 | Boston Herald |
| Is it realistic to think a manager can kick-start a team on the brink of elimination? That idea seems born out of a football trope that’s probably too often carried into baseball. | | |
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| WSJ |
| The Cleveland Indians are leaning on Bauer this October. To deal with the pressure, Bauer leans on his favorite hobby: mechanical engineering. | | |
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 | ESPN Cricinfo |
| The former England No. 3's autobiography is a compelling, raw account of a modern sportsman's life. | | |
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 | MMQB |
| She’s on a crusade to bring analytics to the average football fan. | | |
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 | NBA.com |
| The guys chat about the communication that takes place inside an NBA organization. | | |
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 | Wired UK |
| Adidas is designing tomorrow's soccer shoe in its secret lab. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| Control what you can, and don’t sweat the rest. | | |
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| ESPN.com |
| Check out Zach Lowe's comprehensive guide to most watchable (and least watchable) NBA teams, ranked from 1 to 30. | | |
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